Which Munchkin actor offered Dorothy a lollipop in the 1939 film?

Jerry Maren is the Munchkin actor who offered Dorothy a lollipop in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz.

Maren played the green-clad center member of the Lollipop Guild, the trio of Munchkin boys who welcome Dorothy to Munchkinland. After their brief song, “We’re the Lollipop Guild,” Maren’s character steps forward and presents Dorothy, played by Judy Garland, with a large round sucker.

Maren was born Gerard Marenghi in 1920 and was recruited by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer after performing as a dancer. He filmed his Oz scenes when he was a teenager. The other two Lollipop Guild performers were Jakob “Jackie” Gerlich and Harry Earles, which explains why quiz players may confuse the names.

A common mix-up is to identify Meinhardt Raabe, who played the Munchkin coroner. Raabe appears prominently in the same Munchkinland sequence, but he does not offer Dorothy the candy. Maren remained closely associated with the role throughout his life and was widely remembered as the Lollipop Guild actor.